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Originally Posted by Derwood
a host should never have to offer (or be expected to offer) their own bed for their guests. if you want to save some money and stay at my place, awesome. but i'm not giving up my bed for you too.
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Yeah, that's our rule as well, at least in Iceland... we have a tiny-ass one-bedroom apartment, but every single guest that's crashed here (including my parents, and aunt/uncle) has gotten a decent mattress and linens on the living room floor, which is made up for them before they arrive. That's as much as I'm going to do, considering I'm saving them at least $150 a night here (and that's for "cheap" accommodation in Reykjavík!). Give up our bed for 1-2 weeks?! No way!!!
That said, when we stayed with ktspktsp's best friend from Lebanon, in Washington DC last month (he's doing his MD residency there), he INSISTED that we sleep in his bed, and he would take the couch. He also joked around about having a threesome (he's not one to take seriously about anything like that, so it was amusing), but absolutely would not let us sleep on the couch. Of course, it was only one night, so maybe if it had been longer, things would have been different. But I felt weird sleeping there, too... since his sheets weren't newly changed or anything like that!!!